There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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Mother Teresa
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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Mother Teresa
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Horace Mann
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
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Marcus Aurelius
Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people? You decide!
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By J.M. Coetzee
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications — those are the good words.
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
